SAN DIEGO – In its lone match of the week the San Diego State women's soccer team travels south in Mission Valley to play the San Diego Toreros at Torero Stadium on Friday night at 7 p.m.
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San Diego State (1-5-0) at San Diego (4-1-0)
Friday, Sept. 10 | 7 p.m. (PT) | Torero Stadium | San Diego, Calif.
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Aztec Notes
With the last meeting coming in 2019, the series against San Diego began in 1992. The Aztecs and Toreros have played 19 times with SDSU owning a slim 10-8-1 advantage in the all-time series, but are just 3-7-0 at USD. San Diego State has been held scoreless in three of its last four games on the Toreros' home field, being outscored 11-2.
San Diego State's current five-game slide equals the second longest in program history and the longest since the 2001 season. The longest losing streak in program history is six games, which occurred in the 2000 season.
Alexa Madueno (So., GK, Woodland, Calif.) established a season and career-high when she recorded 14 saves in the team's game at No. 13 Stanford (8/29). The saves are the most since Aubree Southwick set the program record of 16 saves in a game at Oregon State on Sept. 19, 2010.
Through six matches this season, Alexa Madueno (So., GK, Woodland, Calif.) has recorded 44 saves, blowing past her total of 35 saves in 11 contests last season. She is averaging 7.3 saves per game in 2021. If you extrapolate that out to the team's 19 regular-season games, Madueno would total 139 saves, 33 more than the program's current single-season record of 106, which was set by Aubree Southwick in the 2007 season.
Alexa Madueno (So., GK, Woodland, Calif.) is second in the nation in saves (44) and ranks No. 14 in saves per game (7.33) and No. 38 in goalie minutes played (540:00). She leads the Mountain West in each of those categories, as well as being No. T-3 in shutouts.
Denise Castro (Fr., MF, San Ysidro, Calif.) leads the side with two goals (one each at Saint Mary's - 8/26 & vs. Long Beach State - 9/5). Castro is No. T-4 in the Mountain West in that category. With a call up from the Mexican National Team, Castro will be the first active Aztec women's soccer player to compete for a national team since the start of the Friesen era (2007-present).
Opponent Notebook
San Diego
The Toreros are 4-1-0 after a 2-1 victory vs. Long Beach State on Sept. 2... San Diego was predicted to finish in ninth place in the West Coast Conference preseason poll among a ten-team table... USD has nine players who have scored goals led by three players with two each... Bekah Valdez leads the team with 12 shots, two goals, and has put six shots on frame... In nine games in 2020, the Toreros scored four goals and totaled two assists, and of the 10 field players who started at least five games for USD in 2020, they return five in 2021... USD brings back 75.0 percent of the goal scoring (3-of-4 total goals) and 50.0 percent of its assists (1-of-2 total assists) from the 2020 campaign... Junior keeper Ellyn Casto, a starter in all five contests, has a 4-1-0 record, a 1.32 GAA, a .727 save percentage, and leads the team in minutes in goal (408:15)... The Toreros are coached by Louise Lieberman, who is in her fifth season at the helm of the program and brings a career-record of 25-36-3 into the season. She has a 2-1-0 record against San Diego State.
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Aztecs Face Toreros In Lone Contest Of The Week
